Session: Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity IV (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 82-1

Ruderal strategists and generalist dispersers in a novel urban hardscape habitat
Lauren J. Frazee, Temple University; Ed Green, Rutgers University; Lena Struwe, Rutgers University

8:20 AM

COS 82-2

Functional diversity is dead, long live functional diversity!
D. Matthias Dehling, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Daniel B. Stouffer, University of Canterbury

8:40 AM Cancelled

COS 82-3

Impacts of an indigenous settlement on taxonomic and functional dung beetle diversity in the Venezuelan Amazon (widthdrawn)
Juanita Choo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University; Evan P. Economo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

9:00 AM

COS 82-4

Effects of extreme climate on suites of functional traits in the urban forest of Southern California
Peter Ibsen, University of California Riverside; G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California

9:20 AM

COS 82-5

Shifting functional composition of plant communities in the face of land use at the global scale
Adriana De Palma, Natural History Museum; Sandra DÃaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de BiologÃa Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de CÃ³rdoba; Lawrence Hudson, Natural History Museum; Andy Purvis, Natural History Museum

9:40 AM

COS 82-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 82-6

Sugar landscapes and pollinator-mediated interactions
Henning Nottebrock, South Dakota State University; Baptiste Schmid, Swiss Ornithological Institute; Katharina Mayer, University of Konstanz; CÃ©line Devaux, University Montpellier; Katrin Boehning-Gaese, Senckenberg BiodiversitÃ¤t und Klima- Forschungszentrum (BiK-F); Charles B. Fenster, South Dakota State University; Karen Esler, Center for Invasion Biology, South Africa, Stellenbosch University; Matthias Schleuning, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BIK-F); JÃ¶rn Pagel, University of Hohenheim; Frank M. Schurr, University of Hohenheim

10:10 AM

COS 82-7

Plant traits are differentially linked to fitness under water stress
Jennifer Funk, Chapman University; Julie E. Larson, University of Colorado, Boulder

10:30 AM

COS 82-8

Importance of species composition to inform trait-based approaches of community assembly along an environmental stress gradient
Joseph Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University; Julie Zinnert, Virginia Commonwealth University

10:50 AM

COS 82-9

The overall function of the frog skin microbiome varies across an environmental gradient
Brandon J. Varela, McGill University; Roberto IbÃ¡Ã±ez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; David M. Green, McGill University; David LesbarrÃ©res, Laurentian University

11:10 AM

COS 82-10

A spectrum of spectrums: Leaf economics across taxonomic scales
Leander DL Anderegg, Carnegie Institute for Science, University of Washington; Logan T. Berner, Oregon State University; Beverly E. Law, Oregon State University; Janneke HilleRisLambers, University of Washington

COS 82 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity IV